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Lawsuit claims Burger King's Impossible Whoppers are contaminated by meat
Burger King was sued on Monday by a vegan customer who accused the fast-food chain of contaminating its meatless "Impossible" Whoppers by cooking them on the same grills as its traditional meat burgers.
In a proposed class action, Phillip Williams said he bought an Impossible Whopper, a plant-based alternative to Burger King's regular Whopper, at an Atlanta drive-through, and would not have paid a premium price had he known the cooking would leave it "coated in meat by-products."
The lawsuit filed in Miami federal court seeks damages for all U.S. purchasers of the Impossible Whopper, and an injunction requiring Burger King to "plainly disclose" that Impossible Whoppers and regular burgers are cooked on the same grills.
[...] Its website describes the Impossible Burger as "100% Whopper, 0% Beef," and adds that "for guests looking for a meat-free option, a non-broiler method of preparation is available upon request."
Also at Boing Boing.
Previously: Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants
Burger King Adds Impossible Vegan Burger To Menu
Plant-Based "Impossible Burger" Coming to Every Burger King Location
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Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products
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(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday November 19 2019, @01:22PM (9 children)
More food preparation space? More cooking space? More workers/time to clean the more equipment after use? Sure, if you're willing to pay for it, someone'll be willing to supply it, that's how a free market works. Your moldburger now costs $50, but that's what you asked for.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 19 2019, @03:33PM
Basic economics shows that this is a probably a bad idea from a business perspective, because the extra cooking space, staff, and equipment can instead be used to produce more $10 burgers, which you will almost certainly sell more than five times as frequently as the $50 burgers.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by mhajicek on Tuesday November 19 2019, @03:36PM (4 children)
Agreed. I cannot eat wheat. I will occasionally pay $20 for a gluten free sub at Jersey Mike's, where they wipe everything down and take considerable care to avoid cross-contamination.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by gtomorrow on Tuesday November 19 2019, @07:41PM (1 child)
Really? With all due respect to you and your dietary intolerance, you pay $20 for a sandwich that you could make for yourself for $3-5 of ingredients and the same amount of time waiting in line for the special sanitary preparation?? I'm not picking fights here but I find that...looking for the right words...
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 19 2019, @09:47PM
Yeah he's a real dick for wanting to do things in public, maybe even fraternize with other humans while participating in their bonding rituals, without being attacked by the very food he eats. What an asshole.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday November 20 2019, @12:31AM (1 child)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 20 2019, @02:14AM
Make your own food from scratch. It's the only way to be sure.
Wild edibles is a better culinary avenue to explore than all these contortions around meat substitutes and entomophagy. We've been adding them in as staples to our diet, and they're crazy delicious. Purslane is regarded as a weed, but it should be a delicacy; it has a great crunch and a citrus-y finish. Clover, the kind that grows in your lawn, has the texture of alfalfa sprouts and the pop of lime. Dandelion greens (which are sometimes sold in grocery stores in New York) are a great addition to salads, and they're super abundant. Acorns, which carpet the ground of the Northeast in the fall, makes terrific flour that's full of protein and carbohydrates.
Studies have been popping up in the last decade that report Indians practiced permaculture in addition to regular agriculture; scientists have determined that the distribution of trees, understory species, and ground plants in the Americas are not natural. That means it's all still around us, and all we have to do is literally stretch out our hands and eat it.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by dry on Wednesday November 20 2019, @03:00AM (2 children)
It's the advertising, they just need some small print, "may contain animal products" like so many ingredient lists have, though usually wheat, nuts and such, usually due to the possibility of cross contamination. Cheap and honest.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 20 2019, @05:20AM (1 child)
Already there. Just checked my coupons I got in the weekly coupon mailer and the Burger King ad has this on the bottom of their ad:
(Score: 2) by dry on Wednesday November 20 2019, @05:35AM
Good. Then if this Burger King had similar, they shouldn't have a problem besides the hassle and possibility of bad publicity.